IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'Employment protection and fertility decisions: the unintended consequences of the Italian Jobs Act' in: Economic Policy, 2021, 36 (108), 735 - 773

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12773

Employment Protection and Firm-Provided Training: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from a Labour Market Reform

Massimiliano Bratti, Maurizio Conti, Giovanni Sulis

revised version published as 'Employment Protection and Firm-provided Training in Dual Labour Markets' in: Labour Economics, 2021, 69, 101972

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12748

Combined and Distributional Effects of EPL Reduction and Hiring Incentives: An Assessment Using Non-Linear DiD

Chiara Ardito, Fabio Berton, Lia Pacelli

published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2023, 21, 925–954

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12384

The Detrimental Effect of Job Protection on Employment: Evidence from France

Pierre Cahuc, Franck Malherbet, Julien Prat

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12309

How Stable Is Labour Market Dualism? Reforms of Employment Protection in Nine European Countries

Werner Eichhorst, Paul Marx

published in: European Journal of Industrial Relations, 2021, 27 (1), 93-110

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12305

The Effect of Employment Protection on Firms' Worker Selection

Sebastian Butschek, Jan Sauermann

published online in: Journal of Human Resources, 09 May 2022

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12126

Dual Labour Markets Revisited

Samuel Bentolila, Juan J. Dolado, Juan F. Jimeno

published in: Oxford Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance, 2020

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11788

The Impact of Employment Protection on the Industrial Wage Structure

John S. Heywood, Mary O'Mahony, W. Stanley Siebert, Ana Rincon-Aznar

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11582

The Unemployment Impact of Product and Labour Market Regulation: Evidence from European Countries

Céline Piton, François Rycx

published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2019, 9 (2), 1-32

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11500

Employment Protection and Firm Relocation: Theory and Evidence

Gerda Dewit, Holger Görg, Yama Temouri

published in: Economica, 2019, 86 (344), 663-688

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11339

Employment Protection, Temporary Contracts and Firm-Provided Training: Evidence from Italy

Massimiliano Bratti, Maurizio Conti, Giovanni Sulis

revised version published as 'Employment Protection and Firm-provided Training in Dual Labour Market' in: Labour Economics, 2021, 69, 101972

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10904

Employment Protection Legislation and Mismatch: Evidence from a Reform

Fabio Berton, Francesco Devicienti, Sara Grubanov-Boskovic

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10352

Taxation of Temporary Jobs: Good Intentions with Bad Outcomes?

Pierre Cahuc, Olivier Charlot, Franck Malherbet, Helène Benghalem, Emeline Limon

published in: Economic Journal, 2020, 130 (626), 422 - 445.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9966

Evaluating Labour Market Policy

Werner Eichhorst, Regina Konle-Seidl

published in: Bent Greve (ed.), Handbook of Social Policy Evaluation, 2017, Chapter 18

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9961

Permanent Jobs, Employment Protection and Job Content

Lawrence M. Kahn

published in: Industrial Relations, 2018, 57 (3), 569-638

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9953

From Dual to Unified Employment Protection: Transition and Steady State

Juan J. Dolado, Etienne Lalé, Nawid Siassi

published in: Quantitative Economics, 2021, 12 (2), 547-585.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9863

Labor Market Reforms in Europe: Towards More Flexicure Labor Markets?

Werner Eichhorst, Paul Marx, Caroline Wehner

published in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2017, 51 (3), 1-17.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9783

Levelling the Playing Field: The Effects of Slovenia's 2013 Labour Market Reform

Matija Vodopivec, Suzana Laporsek, Milan Vodopivec

published in: Economic and Business Review, 2019, 21(1).

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9740

Firm Dynamics and Employment Protection: Evidence from Sectoral Data

Anna Bottasso, Maurizio Conti, Giovanni Sulis

published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 78, 35-53

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9632

Seniority Rules, Worker Mobility and Wages: Evidence from Multi-Country Linked Employer-Employee Data

Petri Böckerman, Per Skedinger, Roope Uusitalo

published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 51, 48-62

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9592

Fear of Labor Rigidities: The Role of Expectations on Employment Growth in Peru

Pablo Lavado, Gustavo Yamada

published in: Latin American Research Review, 2023, 58 (4), 875-891.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9114

Do Employment Protection Reforms Affect Well-Being?

Vanessa Dräger

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8702

Paying for Others' Protection: Causal Evidence on Wages in a Two-Tier System

Mario Centeno, Alvaro A. Novo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8385

Reassessing Labour Market Reforms: A Critique

Pramod N. (Raja) Junankar, Muhunthan Jayanthakumaran

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8362

Employment Protection and Capital-Labor Ratios

Alexandre Janiak, Etienne Wasmer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8220

Labour-Market Institutions and the Dispersion of Wage Earnings

Wiemer Salverda, Daniele Checchi

published in: A. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon (eds.): Handbook of Income Distribution, 2, 2015, 1535–1727

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7809

What Do Labor Market Institutions Do?

Bertil Holmlund

published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 62-69

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7663

Full Employment: A Distant Dream for Europe

Indermit Gill, Johannes Koettl, Truman Packard

published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2013, 2:19

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7594

The Perverse Effects of Job-Security Provisions on Job Security in Italy: Results from a Regression Discontinuity Design

Alexander Hijzen, Leopoldo Mondauto, Stefano Scarpetta

published as "The Impact of Employment Protection on Temporary Employment: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design" in: Labour Economics, 2017 , 46 (C), 65 - 76

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7569

Preferences for Employment Protection and the Insider-Outsider Divide

Elvire Guillaud, Paul Marx

revised version published in: West European Politics, 2014, 37 (5), 1177-1185

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7490

Youth Unemployment in Old Europe: The Polar Cases of France and Germany

Pierre Cahuc, Stéphane Carcillo, Ulf Rinne, Klaus F. Zimmermann

revised version published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2013, 2:18

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7404

The Role of Institutions and Firm Heterogeneity for Labour Market Adjustment: Cross-Country Firm-Level Evidence

Peter N. Gal, Alexander Hijzen, Zoltan Wolf

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7091

Absenteeism, Unemployment and Employment Protection Legislation: Evidence from Italy

Vincenzo Scoppa, Daniela Vuri

published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2014, 3:3

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6894

Do Firms Demand Temporary Workers When They Face Workload Fluctuation? Cross-Country Firm-Level Evidence on the Conditioning Effect of Employment Protection

Vanessa Dräger, Paul Marx

published in: ILR Review, 2017, 70 (4), 942-975

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6881

The Dynamics of the Regulation of Labor in Developing and Developed Countries since 1960

Nauro F. Campos, Jeffrey B. Nugent

published in in N. Campos, P. De Grauwe and Y. Ji (eds.), The Political Economy of Structural Reforms in Europe, Oxford University Press, 2018, pp. 75-88.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6608

Employment Protection and Fertility: Evidence from the 1990 Italian Reform

Ervin Prifti, Daniela Vuri

published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 23, 77-88

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6540

Quit Behavior and the Role of Job Protection

Anne C. Gielen, Konstantinos Tatsiramos

published in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (4), 624 - 632

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6535

Dismissal Protection and Worker Flows in OECD Countries: Evidence from Cross-Country/Cross-Industry Data

Andrea Bassanini, Andrea Garnero

revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 21 (1), 25-41

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6504

The Impact of Greek Labour Market Regulation on Temporary and Family Employment: Evidence from a New Survey

Achilleas Anagnostopoulos, W. Stanley Siebert

published in: International Journal of Human Resource Management, 2015, 26 (18), 2366-2393

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6365

Explaining the Spread of Temporary Jobs and its Impact on Labor Turnover

Pierre Cahuc, Olivier Charlot, Franck Malherbet

published in: International Economic Review, 2016, 57 (2), 533-572

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6348

The Healthy Fright of Losing a Good One for a Bad One

Annalisa Cristini, Federica Origo, Sara Pinoli

published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2017, 59, 129-144

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6080

The Effects of the Recent Economic Crisis on Social Protection and Labour Market Arrangements across Socio-Economic Groups

Gaetano Basso, Mathias Dolls, Werner Eichhorst, Thomas Leoni, Andreas Peichl

published in: Intereconomics, 2012, 47 (4), 217-223.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5710

A Flexicurity Labour Market in the Great Recession: The Case of Denmark

Torben M. Andersen

published in: De Economist, 2012, 160, 117–140

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5677

Labor Disputes and Labor Flows

Henri Fraisse, Francis Kramarz, Corinne Prost

published in: ILR Review, 2015, 68 (5), 1043-1077

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5365

Evolution of Employment Protection Legislation in the USSR, CIS and Baltic States, 1985-2009

Alexander Muravyev

revised version published in: Europe-Asia Studies, 2014, 66 (8), 1270-1294

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5045

Crisis, What Crisis? Patterns of Adaptation in European Labor Markets

Werner Eichhorst, Michael Feil, Paul Marx

published in: Applied Economics Quarterly Supplement, 2010, 56 (61), 29-64

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4895

Employment Protection, Technology Choice, and Worker Allocation

Eric Bartelsman, Pieter A. Gautier, Joris De Wind

published in: International Economic Review, 2018, 57 (3), 787 - 825

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4891

Employment, Exchange Rates and Labour Market Rigidity

Fernando Alexandre, Pedro Bação, João Cerejeira, Miguel Portela

published in: World Economy, 2017, 40 (5), 993 - 1011

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4685

Labour Contract Regulations and Workers' Wellbeing: International Longitudinal Evidence

Andrea Salvatori

published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (4), 667-678

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4524

Layoff Costs and Efficiency with Asymmetric Information

Alain Delacroix, Etienne Wasmer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4484

Employment Protection Legislation in Russia: Regional Enforcement and Labour Market Outcomes

Vladimir Gimpelson, Rostislav Kapeliushnikov, Anna Lukiyanova

published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2010, 52 (4), 611-636

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4468

Endogenous Indoctrination: Occupational Choice, the Evolution of Beliefs, and the Political Economy of Reform

Gilles Saint-Paul

published in: Economic Journal, 2010, 120 (544), 325 - 353

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4465

Better Protected, Better Paid: Evidence on How Employment Protection Affects Wages

Karen van der Wiel

published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (1), 16-26

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4440

Does the Welfare State Make Older Workers Unemployable?

Gilles Saint-Paul

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3626

Rhineland Exit?

Lans Bovenberg, Coen Teulings

published in International Tax and Public Finance, 2009, 16 (5), 710-726

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3509

Uncertainty and the Politics of Employment Protection

Andrea Vindigni

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3435

Institutions and Contract Enforcement

Armin Falk, David B. Huffman, W. Bentley MacLeod

revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 33 (3), 571-590

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3414

Does Employment Protection Help Immigrants? Evidence from European Labor Markets

Filipa Sa

published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (5), 624-642

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3394

Are All Labor Regulations Equal? Evidence from Indian Manufacturing

Ahmad Ahsan, Carmen Pagés

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3365

Preferences for Collective versus Individualised Wage Setting

Tito Boeri, Michael C. Burda

published in Economic Journal, 2009, 119, 1440-1463.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3352

Better Protected, Better Paid: Evidence on How Employment Protection Affects Wages

Karen van der Wiel

substantially revised version published as IZA DP No. 4465

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3241

Employment Protection Reforms, Employment and the Incidence of Temporary Jobs in Europe: 1995–2001

Lawrence M. Kahn

published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (1), 1-15

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3194

Der Arbeitsmarkt in Deutschland: Zwischen Strukturreformen und sozialpolitischem Reflex

Werner Eichhorst

published in: Gesundheits- und Sozialpolitik, 2008, 62 (2), 17-30

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3112

Dismissals for Cause: The Difference That Just Eight Paragraphs Can Make

Pedro S. Martins

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 27(2), 257–279, 2009

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2751

Skills Shortages and Training in Russian Enterprises

Hong Tan, Yevgeniya Savchenko, Vladimir Gimpelson, Rostislav Kapeliushnikov, Anna Lukiyanova

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2649

Integrating Severely Disabled Individuals into the Labour Market: The Austrian Case

Brigitte Humer, Jean-Philippe Wuellrich, Josef Zweimüller

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2505

Employment Regulation and Labor Market Policy in Germany, 1991-2005

Bernhard Ebbinghaus, Werner Eichhorst

published in: Paul de Beer and Trudie Schils (eds.), The Labour Market Triangle Employment Protection, Unemployment Compensation and Activation in Europe, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2009, 119-144

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2460

The Economics of Prozac: Do Employees Really Gain from Strong Employment Protection?

Etienne Wasmer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2433

The Economic Effects of Employment Protection: Evidence from International Industry-Level Data

Alejandro Micco, Carmen Pagés

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2310

Studying Labor Market Institutions in the Lab: Minimum Wages, Employment Protection and Workfare

Armin Falk, David B. Huffman

published in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2007, 163 (1), 30-45

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2304

Employment Protection Reform in Search Economies